If All You See…

By William Teach August 3, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing palm trees to grow in Boston, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on a NY man beaten for wearing a MAGA hat.

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Cliff Collapses In California Killing 3. Guess What Gets Blamed?

By William Teach August 3, 2019 – 10:30 am

So, this happened

Now, California is a place of massive tectonic activity. Many massive faults, lots of smaller ones. The Pacific plate is diving under California. This is what creates those hills and mountains. And, you get erosion of those hills and mountains. A place of alternative dry and wet, and, in this case, right near the ocean. You know this. It’s called science. Geology. Etc.

https://twitter.com/KentLauglin/status/1157614354914848768

Well, not Trump yet, but…

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Ilhan Omar (Who’s Also A Jew Hater) Offers Silly Zero Waste Bill As Part Of Green New Deal

By William Teach August 3, 2019 – 7:25 am

See, this could have been a decent bill. The idea is good, but, the positioning is eye rollingly idiotic

Scrap Collector: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Zero Waste Act billed as ‘key part’ of Green New Deal

Hot on the heels of last month’s sweeping national plastic pollution proposal, there’s a new federal waste bill in town.

I missed that one. Must not have gotten much press. It is a little bit too big government, a bit too over the top, but, the idea is presented in a lucid, rational manner, because, yes, we do have too much plastic pollution, and people do not recycle. What the two Democrats, Sen Tom Udall and Rep Alan Lowenthall did not do was go beyond basic language about protecting the environment. Omar didn’t see the sane way they positioned it

The Zero Waste Act, introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. as a “key part of the Green New Deal,” would provide up to $250 million in funding for “zero waste” initiatives — including organics recycling infrastructure, e-waste recycling or reuse, source reduction and market development.

“Our country generates over 250 million tons of trash each year. Right now, most of that trash does not get recycled or composted or reused. Instead, it ends up in landfills and incinerators, fueling our climate crisis and polluting the communities who live near these toxic sites,” Omar said during a press conference last week. “The only way to combat this crisis is to move to a ‘zero waste’ economy.”

The congresswoman framed waste as “an environmental justice issue,” noting that 80% of incinerators are located in low-income communities, communities of color and indigenous lands. In addition to presenting opportunities for economic growth and greenhouse gas reduction, waste diversion “protects communities from the health hazards associated with landfills and incinerators, such as toxic gases, pests, and air and water pollution.”

Zero waste is unobtainable at this time, but the idea of moving towards it is a good one. Consider “e-waste”, especially mobile phones. How many are just thrown in the garbage? Carriers and others should entice people to recycle them. So, good right? Right up to the “climate crisis”, “green new dea”, and environmental justice” moonbattery, which will cause people to dismiss this as a typical Modern Socialist bit of insanity to be ignored and fought against, because you know it will go way too far in its objectives. For instance, only those which a “living wage” are eligible for grants.

It’s a way to take a good idea and destroy it, because people like Omar are nuts.

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Bummer: People Demanding Asylum Often Have No Lawyers To Help With Process

By William Teach August 3, 2019 – 7:08 am

This has made the NY Times very upset, so, Miriam Jordan wrote an opinion piece masquerading as straight news

In Court Without a Lawyer: The Consequences of Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Plan

Outside one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts, dozens of migrant families streamed out of a pair of buses that had just pulled in from the Mexican border, all of them hoping to fight deportation and ask for refuge in the United States.

They filed into two packed waiting rooms at the busy federal compound southeast of San Diego. Mothers tried to soothe crying babies. Security guards escorted people to bathroom breaks. Inside the courtrooms, people waiting their turns before the judges slouched on wooden benches as the long hours wore on.

The hearings unfolding several days a week in Southern California are unlike most of the asylum proceedings that have dominated immigration court dockets since Central American families began arriving in large numbers at the southern border in 2014. For the 158 migrants brought in through the San Ysidro port of entry that day in July, their stay in the United States would be brief: Nearly all of them would be returned to Mexico at the end of the day to await, at a distance, what for some of them could be a life-or-death decision.

And most of them will be denied asylum, because they do not qualify. They’ve been enticed by Open Borders advocates to make the 2,000 mile trek. As for being deported, that would be what Mexico is looking to do.

For decades, those who could reasonably argue they were fleeing persecution in their homelands could enter the United States and obtain temporary residence and often a work permit while they consulted with a lawyer and prepared to present a full asylum petition to the immigration court.

That all changed under a Trump administration program that began in January. The program requires many migrants seeking admission to the United States to be sent back to Mexico for the duration of their court proceedings, allowing them to cross the border only for their hearings.

For decades, a goodly chunk simply disappeared into America after we generously allowed them in to make their petition. Then, decades later they demand that we give them citizenship after taking advantage of our generosity.

The program is proving disastrously difficult for many asylum seekers, who show up for critical court hearings like the ones in San Diego with no legal representation and little understanding of what is needed to successfully present a case. Some have not even been informed of when their cases would be heard, or were given the wrong date or the wrong courthouse.

That would be on them. If you’re going to petition, say, the IRS, it is on you to obtain representation and learn what’s necessary to successfully present your case, right? You should take the time to find out the things you need to know, correct? It’s called personal responsibility. Now, if you were busted and couldn’t afford a lawyer, that’s something different. These people are all showing up voluntarily. Want a lawyer? Hire one. Heck, a bunch of you could band together for representation. They could Demand that the liberal Open Borders advocates who enticed them to come pay for them. The U.S. taxpayers shouldn’t.

Hey, perhaps the NY Times can pick up the tab, since this gives them a sad.

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“Science” Needs The Humanities To Solve The Climate Scam Or Something

By William Teach August 2, 2019 – 4:28 pm

In all fairness, not everyone listens to science. Obviously, drinking, doing drugs, smoking, eating tons of transfats, etc, are not good for us, yet, we still do it. Being overweight is bad (oh, right, pointing that out is now body shaming.) People pretend they’re the opposite gender and demand we call them that even though science says they aren’t. But, really, this is just one more point highlighting that the climate crisis scam is not about politics

Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change

Large wildfires in the Arctic and intense heat waves in Europe are just the latest evidence that climate change is becoming the defining event of our time. Unlike other periods that came and went, such as the 1960s or the dot-com boom, an era of unchecked climate change will lead to complex and irreversible changes in Earth’s life support systems.

There’s virtually nothing humanity can do about this, because it is mostly natural.

Many people view climate change as a scientific issue – a matter of physical, biological and technical systems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent assessment report, for example, is a vast compendium of climate science, threats and potential solutions.

Yet modern climate change is also a human problem caused by the collective behaviors of people – mostly the wealthy – around the world. Japanese economist Yoichi Kaya summarizes this viewpoint in an elegant equation known as the Kaya Identity: Global greenhouse gas emissions are the product not just of energy use and technology, but also human population size and economic activity.

The evil rich!

In our view, solving the world’s climate problems will require tapping into brainpower beyond science. That’s why the two of us – an ecologistand a humanities dean – are teaming up to rethink climate solutions. Recently we developed a program to embed humanities graduate students in science teams, an idea that climate research centers are also exploring.

Da, comrade, you must be cured of your Wrongthink (by people who refuse to change their own lives to stop the climate crisis (scam)).

Humanist scholars like LeMenager help to uncover the root causes of complex problems. Yes, rising carbon dioxide levels trap more heat in the atmosphere – but values matter too. Defining features of American identity, such as independence, freedom, mobility and self-reliance, have become entangled with petroleum consumption.

Are you getting the idea that they want everything about your modern like to change? And that they do not like America very much? This word salad of Modern Socialism continues on. Just like the carbon footprints from the people who believe this malarkey.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil, not good plastic bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, with a post on the coolest Jan-July in US recorded history.

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Ed Reed Wears Shirt Of People “Killed By Cops” To Hall Of Fame Game

By William Teach August 2, 2019 – 10:30 am

This is fantastic. Trying to drive away viewers before the season even starts

Someone sent me a link to this shirt. The thing is, Trayvon Martin was not killed by a killed, but, a private citizen who feared for his life from an unruly, violent teenager. And the shirt is explicitely positioned as black people killed by cops.

Then there’s Michael Brown, who attacked a police officer in his car, tried to take his firearm, ran away, then charged the officer.

Alston Sterling was shot when he was resisting arrest and reaching for the gun in his pocket. Bland committed suicide in jail, and, while there were certainly some poor procedures in place, she was in jail for assaulting an officer. No officer was found guilty in the death of Freddie Gray, who had been arrested for having an illegal weapon.

The thing is, Ed is more than welcome to use his 1st Amendment Right for this. And we’re able to use our 1st A Rights to criticize this. And our freedom of association to not watch the NFL. The people who love this shirt mostly won’t be watching the NFL to start with.

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Euronews Wonders If Traveling To Google’s ‘Climate Change’ Conference By Private Jet Is Hypocritical Or Something

By William Teach August 2, 2019 – 7:08 am

Remember this?

Well, Maeve Campbell of Euronews gives it shot, which is more about defending this behavior

IS TRAVELLING TO GOOGLE’S CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE BY PRIVATE JET HYPOCRITICAL?

Film stars, celebrities, politicians and even royalty graced the Sicilian coast with their presence this week, for the 7th annual ‘Google Camp’. The enigmatic conference is known for its exclusivity, with billionaire CEOs jet-setting in to take part in the proceedings, with the hope of working together to effect some sort of change on a global scale. Each year, the theme is different, with previous editions centring around issues like feminism and the role of sports in modern culture. But this year, all eyes were on mother nature, with the theme of climate change at the forefront of the event. (snip)

Given the eco theme of the conference this year, it surely begs the question, shouldn’t a different approach have been applied to travelling to and from the resort, given the pressing environmental issues at hand? In reality, 114 private jets flew into the Italian Verdura Resort, according to the Italian press, and many of the elite guest list arrived in multi million pound yachts. With stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama and Prince Harry in attendance, they were hardly going to be hitch-hiking, but even so, the luxurious vehicles seemed not in-keeping with the subject of the conference this year.

Of course, it’s not just the jets, but the megayachts and fossil fueled vehicles, plus the extravagance. Anyhow, on one hand, she says it is hypocritical

Inevitably, celebrities like Katy Perry, Harry Styles, Bradley Cooper and eco fashion designer Stella McCartney, all arrived at the retreat in style. American Businessman Barry Diller, creator of Fox Broadcasting, rocked up on his $200 million yacht Eos, including both sails and two 2,300-horsepower diesel engines. The list goes on…billionaire Dreamworks founder David Geffen is thought to have hosted Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom on his $400 million yacht, Rising Sun.

Therefore, you could certainly argue that this is an immense hypocrisy. According to our calculations, a flight from New York to Palermo, Sicily, generates around 4.24 metric tons of CO2, or the equivalent of 540,652 smart phones being charged at one time. And it’s not as if the plane is carrying hundreds of people, like any other would, these celebs arrive in private jets. All that CO2, for just a few people crossing the Atlantic – it’s not exactly eco-friendly?

But, see

While the facts remain, following the influx of private vehicles to Google’s Italian retreat, there is an argument to be made that both the coverage generated and the environmental awareness resulting from it, makes it all worth it. To centre such an important event around climate change in this day and age is a positive step in the right direction, given the amount of influential figures in attendance, all with staggering platforms to effect change all around the world.

To have them all in one place, working together to achieve a common goal that could really make a difference along the road to becoming carbon neutral before 2050 – perhaps the positives outweigh the negatives? And even if you disagree, at least the very fact they all arrived in such sheer extravagance has brought all the more attention to the event and the eco themes surrounding it!

See, the optics of having all these big shot celebrities, none of whom are climate scientists (and almost none, if any, are scientists of any disciple – remember when the Cult of Climastrology said we should only listen to climate scientists?), is more important than any danged old climahypocrisy. People who won’t see their lives get harmed in the least by Hotcoldwetdry policies have no problem pushing this on Other People.

Let’s hope they are offsetting their flights by sequestering the amount of CO2 produced, as this is one easy step we can all take to travel with a guilty-free conscience. From planting trees to contributing to clean energy research schemes, there’s lots we can all do to neutralise our flight emissions when we go on holiday.

Most of us will not be flying on private jets or hanging on mega-yachts, heading to fancy-pants conferences. The Cult always has an excuse.

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In Which The Washington Post Realizes Democrat Candidates Ideas Don’t Work

By William Teach August 2, 2019 – 6:55 am

Someone on the Washington Post Editorial Board has suddenly come to the realization that the ideas being offered by the current crop of Democratic Party contenders for the presidential nomination are devoid of reality, and could rather cause a problem. Which is interesting, because this is more of a panic response, since rarely has the paper in any facet nailed Democrats nor these policies before. They usually treat them with kid gloves or back them

Why run for president to promote ideas that can’t work?

“I DON’T understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Tuesday night, in the most notable zinger of July’s Democratic presidential primary debate. “I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the other major candidate on the field’s left wing, piled on.

This got us thinking about some big ideas in U.S history. Like, say, amending the Constitution to outlaw liquor. Or sending half a million troops into Vietnam. Or passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy in a time of massive deficits.

Ambition is essential, in other words, but not sufficient. The country faces big challenges, such as economic inequality and climate change, that call for creative solutions. They also call for wisdom, honesty and even a bit of modesty about government’s limitations. Having embraced President Barack Obama’s “no drama” approach to governing, often defined by the philosophy “don’t do stupid s—,” it would be odd if Democrats suddenly embraced ideological grandiosity as a prerequisite for service in the Oval Office.

As a sidebar, the only reason Obama had the “no drama” approach is because the media refused to do their job in reporting on it. Just Operation Fast and Furious alone should have be a, to use Joe Biden’s words, “big f’ing deal.” Oh, and that the majority of the country didn’t want Obamacare, and were quite vocal about it

That means, first, that proposals should meet a baseline degree of factual plausibility — a bar that, for example, the Medicare-for-all plan that Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren favor does not clear. Ms. Warren’s Tuesday night zinger was aimed at former congressman John Delaney (Md.), who had pointed out correctly that the numbers behind the proposal simply do not compute: The senators cannot deliver a system that provides far more benefits than other single-payer systems they claim as their model while preserving the level of care and access that insured Americans currently enjoy. They should make the case for a government monopoly on health care if they want, but they should be honest about the trade-offs.

Candidates who promise big ideas should also be pressed on how they will realize them. Mr. Sanders says he will lead a revolution. Ms. Warren will take on the “giant corporations that have taken our government and that are holding it by the throat.” Then, the theory goes, they can bring about radical change.

OK, what will the WP do to press them going forward? Bueller? Bueller?

But the United States is a vast, pluralistic country, and Congress will continue to reflect its ideological range. Big donors and billionaires may exercise too much influence, but Democratic primary voters should be wary of candidates who use that fact to explain away all opposition to their ideas. Even if you undid Citizens United and enacted campaign finance reform, sustainable policy in America would emerge only by means of principled compromise.

The next president should have a vision of progress for the nation that is expansive and inspiring. It also should be grounded in mathematical and political reality.

Which eliminates most Democratic Party ideas. On ‘climate change’, income inequality, housing, reparations, healthcare, immigration, doing away with student loans debt, and so much more, they aren’t grounded in either math nor politics. So, will the WP hold them accountable, and start telling their readers that the Dems are all full of mule fritters, beyond the normal political grandstanding and promises? Because, meanwhile, the WP gave unhinged Dem Rep Pramila Jayapal (who’s a defender of anti-Semites) a platform to yammer and obsfuscate the reality of single payer system Medicare for All.

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Good News: White Robots Are Raaaaacist

By William Teach August 1, 2019 – 3:00 pm

You just knew this SJW hot take was coming at some point, right?

This bat guano is actually in the business section

Have you ever noticed the popularity of white robots?

You see them in films like Will Smith’s “I, Robot” and Eve from “Wall-E.” Real-life examples include Honda’s Asimo, UBTECH’s Walker, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, and even NASA’s Valkyrie robot. All made of shiny white material. And some real-life humanoid robots are modeled after white celebrities, such as Audrey Hepburn and Scarlett Johansson.

Or, it could be that they are actually easier to see on screen, and black robots tend to be the bad guys, which has nothing to do with skin color, just rooted in an old notion that bad guys wear black. Oh, and Wall-E wasn’t white. There were also plenty of other colored robots, such as the Transformers. The Cylons were silver. C3PO was golden. Robby the Robot was gray. The robots in the movie Robots were various colors. The 100 greatest robots in movies has plenty who aren’t. And for those which are played by humans, well, white people make up the majority of the population. Of course movies aim for them.

The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research.

“Robots And Racism,” a study conducted by the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) and published by the country’s University of Canterbury, suggests people perceive physically human-like robots to have a race and therefore apply racial stereotypes to white and black robots.

These colors have been found to trigger social cues that determine how humans react to and behave toward other people and also, apparently, robots.

“The bias against black robots is a result of bias against African-Americans,” lead researcher Christoph Bartneck explained to The Next Web. He told CNN, “It is amazing to see how people who had no prior interaction with robots show racial bias towards them.”

So, wait, is Bartneck saying that when blacks have a negative reaction to white robots, meaning they’re racists? Huh.

Everything is just stupid today. People are just making things up to create Controversy and make people into Victims.

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